[Python-Dev] Python 4: don't remove anything, don't break backward compatibility (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon bcannon at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 17:37:45 CET 2014

On Mon Mar 10 2014 at 12:08:55 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I suggest to wait less than 8 years >> for Python 4. > > Why? What's special about 8 years?

It's the time between Python 2.0 and 3.0.

But I'm willing to bet that's going to be an anomaly. Python 3 came into existence when it did so we didn't wait too long for Python 2 to get even more of a foothold; the expectation is that long-term more non-Python 2 code will be written than not. There's no rush on Python 4 since there are no plans to try and tweak something as drastic as str/bytes. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140310/37ab2019/attachment.html>

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